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PICTURE THIS! Using Picture Books

To Introduce or Teach Skills

2006-2007

Compiled by:

Jana Starnes Boswell Elementary School

Lebanon, Missouri jstarnes@lebanon.k12.mo.us

(Updated 8-23-06)

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MATH Counting - Simple: Grapes of Math – Tang (math riddles, higher level counting) 793.7 King’s Commissioners – Friedman (by 2’s, 5’s, etc.) Leaping Lizards - Murphy M&M’s Counting Book – McGrath Spots: Counting Creatures from Sky to Sea – Lesser 513.2 Warthogs in the Kitchen – Edwards Add/Subtract: Ready, Set, Hop- Murphy (also teaching ideas in back of book) 513.2 Multiplication: Anno’s Magic Seeds – Anno 513 Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar – Anno 512 Arctic Fives Arrive – Pinczes Bats on Parade - Appelt One Grain of Rice – Demi 398.2 U Two Ways to Count to Ten – Dee 398.2 Division: Divide and Ride - Murphy (teaching ideas in back of book) 513.2 Doorbell Rang - Hutchins Great Divide – Dodds King’s Commissioners – Friedman One Hundred Hungry Ants - Pinczes Remainder of One - Pinczes Two Ways to Count to Ten – Dee 398.2 Fractions: Doorbell Rang - Hutchins Fraction Fun – Adler 513.2 Give Me Half! - Murphy (teaching ideas in back of book) 513.2 Piece=Part=Portion: Fractions=Decimals=Percents –Gifford 513.2 Measurement: Counting on Frank - Clement How Tall, How Short, How Faraway – Adler 530.8 Twelve Snails to One Lizard - Hightower Circumference: Librarian Who Measured the Earth – Lasky 921 Era Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland – Neuschwander 516 Area & Perimeter: Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! – Burns

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Capacity & Liquid Measurement: Room for Ripley – Murphy 530.8 Large Numbers: Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? – Wells Million Fish…More or Less - McKissack On Beyond a Million –Schwartz 513.5 Estimation: Betcha! – Murphy 519.5 Geometry: Elephants on Board – MacDonald Grandfather Tang’s Story (Tangrams) - Tompett Greedy Triangle – Burns Hamster Champs – Murphy (Angles) 516 Sir Cumference and the First Round Table – Neuschwander 516 Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland – Neuschwander 516 Time: Pigs on a Blanket - McGinley-Nally (teaching ideas in back of book) Critical Thinking: Anno’s Hat Tricks - Anno Problem Solving: Arithme-Tickle – 513 Lew Grapes of Math – Tang 793.7 Math Curse – Scieszka Safari Park – Murphy (finding the missing element) 512.9 Money; Economics: Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday – Viorst If You Made a Million – Schwartz 332.042 Jelly Beans for Sale – McMillan 332.4 Market Days – Jaffrey 381 Markets – Bendick 380.1 Pigs Will Be Pigs - Axelrod Probability: General math: No Fair! - Holtzman (teaching ideas in back of book) Marvelous Math: a Book of Poems – Hopkins 811 Ratio and/or Proportion: G is for Googol – Schwartz 510 If Dogs Were Dinosaurs – Schwartz 513.2 Only One – Harshman 513.2 If You Hopped Like a Frog – Schwartz 513.2 Graphs: Great Graph Contest - Leedy

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MORE MATH (Pre-K – 3) Addition & Subtraction: Animals on Board – Murphy, Stuart J. (PreK-2) Domino Addition - Long, Lynette (K-3) Each Orange Had 8 Slices – Giganti, Paul (PreK-3) Elevator Magic – Murphy (K-3) Fair Bear Share – Murphy (K-3) (addition, regrouping) Monster Musical Chairs – Murphy (PreK-2) One Guinea Pig is Not Enough – Duke, kae (PreK-2) Shark Swimathon – Murphy (2-4) (subtracting 2-digit) Twenty is Too Many – Duke, Kate (K-3) Multiplication and Division: Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream: A Mathematical Story – Neuschwander & Burns (2-4) Best of Times – Tang, Greg (2-5) Double the Ducks – Murphy (K-3) Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do – Murphy (2-4) (addition, multiplication) Geometry: Let’s Fly a Kite – Murphy (1-3) (symmetry) My Full Moon is Square – Pinczes, Elinor (K-3) Shape Up! Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons – Adler, David (K-3) Wing on a Flea: A Book about Shapes – Emberley, Ed (K-3) When a Line Bends…a Shape Begins – Greene, Rhonda (K-3) What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras? – Ellis, Julie (3-6) Fractions: Apple Fractions – Pallotta, Jerry (2-4) Jump, Kangaroo, Jump – Murphy (2-4) Polar Bear Math: Learning about Fractions from Klondike and Snow – Nagda, Ann (3-5) Measurement: Bigger, Better, Best – Murphy (2-4) (area) How Tall, How Short, How Faraway? – Adler, David (K-3) Inchworm and a Half – Pinczes, Elinor (PreK-2) Inch by Inch – Lionni, Leo (PreK-2) Mighty Maddie – Murphy (PreK-1) (weights) Millions to Measure – Schwartz, David (1-4) Racing Around – Murphy (1-4) (perimeter) Number Concepts: 100 Days of Cool – Murphy (1-3) Button Box – Reid, Margarette (PreK-1) (patterning ) Earth Day – Hooray! – Murphy (2-4) (place value) Every Buddy Counts – Murphy (K-1) (counting)

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(Number Concepts cont’d) Just Enough Carrots – Murphy (K-2) (counting) Little Numbers and Pictures That Show Just How Little They Are – Packard, Edward (2-6) Missing Mittens – Murphy (K-2) (odd and even numbers) Pair of Socks – Murphy (K-2) (patterns) Teeth, Tails, and Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book – Wormell, Christopher (1-4) Place for Zero – Murphy (K-3) Problem Solving and Riddles: Five Creatures – Jenkins, Emily (K-3) Riddle-iculous Math – Holub, Joan (3-6) Telling Time: Bunny Day: Telling Time from Breakfast to Bedtime – Walton, Rick (Prek-K) Cluck O’Clock – Gray, Kes (PreK-2) Game Time – Murphy (1-4) How Long? – Dale, Elizabeth (PreK-K) It’s about Time! – Murphy (K-3) It’s about Time, Max! – Richards, Kitty (1-3) Little Rabbits’ First Time Book – Baker, Alan (PreK-K) Me Counting Time from Seconds to Centuries – Sweeney, Joan (K-2) Mouse Tells the Time – Moon (PreK-1) Telling Time – Older, Jules (2-5) Telling Time with Big Mama Cat – Harper, Dan (K-3) What Time Is It, Mr. Crocodile? – Sierra, Judy (PreK-2) Probability: Probably Pistachio – Murphy (K-3) Percentages: Grizzly Gazette – Murphy (2-4) Estimation/Rounding: Coyotes All Around – Murphy (1-4) Money/Negative Numbers: Less than Zero – Murphy (2-4)

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SCIENCE General: Science Verse – Scieszka & Smith Weather: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Barrett Feel the Wind – Dorros 551.5 DOR Geoffry Groundhog Predicts the Weather – Koscielniak (Groundhog Day) It’s Up to You, Griffin – Pickford (Groundhog Day) River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz (poems, flood in SD) Snowflake Bentley - Martin The Storm – Harshman The Storm Book – Zoloto Thunder Cake – Polacco Plants: Old Elm Speaks, Tree Poems – George Pumpkin Circle: Story of a Garden - Levenson Reason for a Flower - Heller (in Big Book form also) Sky Tree – Locker A Tree is Growing – Dorros Trees: The First Forest – Giles Spiders: Like Jake and Me - Jukes Bats: Stellaluna - Cannon Snakes: Verdi -Cannon Pigs: Pigs -Gibbons Food Chains/Food Webs: Sierra - Siebert Space: Call Me Ahnightio - Conrad (about a famous meteorite) Dust: Stars Beneath Your Bed: the Surprising Story of Dust - Sayre

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SOCIAL STUDIES Early Exploration: The Discovery of the Americas - Maestro Encounter - Yolen Native Americans: Annie and the Old One – Miles Beyond the Ridge – Goble Gift of the Sacred Dog – Goble Girl Who Loved Wild Horses – Goble Her Seven Brothers – Goble 398.2 Knots on a Counting Rope - Martin Legend of the Indian Paintbrush – De Paola 398.2 Many Nations, An Alphabet of Native America – Bruchac Mystic Horse- Goble 398.2 Story of Jumping Mouse – Steptoe 398.2 Thunder on the Plains – Robbins 599.64 Pilgrims: Courage of Sarah Noble (1707)- Dalgliesh (short chapter book, 58pages) Molly Bannaky (1603) - McGill On the Mayflower, Voyage of the Ship’s Apprentice & a Passenger Girl - Waters Pilgrims of Plimoth - Sewall Stranded at Plimoth Plantation - Bowen Three Young Pilgrims – Harness Colonial: A Picture Book of George Washington - Adler Baker’s Dozen, A Colonial American Tale – Forest Our Colonial Year – Harness 973.2 Revolutionary War: Dangerous Crossing – Krensky George Did It – Jurmain 921 Great Big Wagon That Rang, How the Liberty Bell Was Saved - Slate Hand in Hand: An American History Through Poetry – Hopkins John, Paul, George & Ben - Smith Katie’s Trunk – Turner Let it Begin Here! Lexington & Concord – Fradin 973.3 Paul Revere’s Ride – Longfellow Redcoats & Petticoats - Kirkpatrick Samuel’s Choice – Berleth This Time, Tempe Wick? - Gauch Which Way to the Revolution? A Book about Maps – Barner 1793/1913: A Penny in the Road – Precek

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Lewis and Clark Expedition: I Am Sacajawea, I Am York – Murphy 920 Lewis and Clark and Me; A Dog’s Tale - Myers (short fiction read-aloud, 63 pages) Gold Rush: Gold Fever - Kay Railroad Race (1863-1869): Iron Horses - Kay Civil War: A. Lincoln and Me – Borden

Blue and the Gray - Bunting Cecil’s Story - Lyon Ghosts of the Civil War - Harness Pink and Say - Polacco Red Legs, a Drummer Boy of the Civil War - Lewin Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt – Fleming

Slavery: Nettie’s Trip South - Turner Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt -Smucker Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt - Hopkinson Westward Movement: Cassie’s Journey, Going West in the 1860’s - Harvey Dandelions - Bunting Grandmother Essie’s Covered Wagon – Williams (Missouri) Prairie Primer A-Z – Stutson Prairie Alphabet – Moore (modern times) Red Flower Goes West – Turner Season’s Sewn: a year in Patchwork - Paul Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt - Smucker Wagons West- Gerrard Orphan Trains (1850’s-1920’s) Train to Somewhere - Bunting Dust Bowl/Depression: Dust Bowl - Booth Leah’s Pony - Friedrich The Babe & I - Adler Complete History of One Location: Barn - Atwell Heron Street - Turner House on Maple Street - Pryor River Ran Wild - Cherry Tree in the Trail - Holling

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Effects of “Progress”: Heron Street - Turner Letting Swift River Go - Yolen Map Skills / Geography: Armadillo from Amarillo - Cherry Around the World, Who’s Been Here? - George Geography From A to Z – Knowlton Mapping Penny’s World – Leedy Fic Lee Picture Book of the U.S.A. – Goodman Scrambled States of America – Keller Economics: Anno’s Magic Seeds – Anno 513 Lemons and Lemonade: a Book about Supply and Demand – Loewen 338.5 Ox-Cart Man – Hall Government: Ghosts of the White House - Harness House Mouse, Senate Mouse – Barnes Marshall, the Courthouse Mouse - Barnes So You Want to Be President – St. George Woodrow For President – Barnes Woodrow, the White House Mouse – Barnes WWII: Baseball Saved Us – Mochizuki The Bracelet - Uchida Cello of Mr. O – Cutler Unbreakable Code - Hunter (Navajo code talkers) Yellow Star, The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark - Deedy In My Pocket - Sim Missouri: Heartland – Siebert How to Draw Missouri’s Sights and Symbols - Kuedee The Great Shaking – Carson S is for Show Me: a Missouri Alphabet – Young Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon – Williams Famous Quotes: Who Said That? Famous Americans Speak - Burleigh Newspaper Headlines: Dateline: Troy – Fleischman Symbols of America: Uncle Sam and Old Glory, Symbols of America – West

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LANGUAGE ARTS Similes/Metaphors: Brave as a Mountain Lion - Scott Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon - Williams Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin Like Jake and Me - Jukes Old Jake’s Skirts - Slonim Owl Moon – Yolen Quick as a Cricket - Wood Song and Dance Man - Ackerman Swamp Angel – Zelinsky The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses - Goble Personification: Call Me Ahnighito- Conrad Giving Tree – Silverstein If You Give a Pig a Pancake – Numeroff Officer Buckle and Gloria – Rathmann Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig Velveteen Rabbit - Williams Onomatopoeia: Heron Street – Turner That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Cuyler ZZZng! ZZZng! ZZZng! A Yoruba Tale - Gershator 398.24 Symbolism: Fly Away Home – Bunting Keeping Quilt – Polacco Flashback: Alexander; Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday – Viorst Miss Rumphius - Cooney Alliteration: Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein Animalia - Base Dinorella - Edwards Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish - Obligado Four Famished Foxes - Edwards Some Smug Slug - Edwards Wacky Wedding - Edwards What Pete Ate from A – Z – Kalman Worrywarts - Edwards

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Idioms: Amelia Bedelia - Parish Dog Breath - Pilkey In a Pickle, and Other Funny Idioms - Terban 428.1 My Momma Likes to Say – 398.9 Bre Homonyms: Eight Ate, A feast of Homonym Riddles – Terban 818 Why the Banana Split - Walton Oxymorons: Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp? And other Oxymorons – Agee 818 Palindromes: Go Hang a Salami! I’m a Lasagna Hog! – Agee 793.73 Too Hot to Hoot – Terban 818 Homophones: A Chocolate Moose for Dinner – Gwynne 428.1 Anagrams: Elvis Lives! And Other Anagrams – Agee 793.734 READING SKILLS: Main Idea: Chair for my Mother - Williams Fables - Lobel Frog Prince Continued - Scieszka Great Kapok Tree – Cherry The Important Book - Brown Keeping Quilt – Polacco Vocabulary: Miss Alaineus: a Vocabulary Disaster – Frasier Plot: Ming Lo Moves the Mountain – Lobel Three Little Javelinas - Lowell Three Little Pigs Other fairy tales: traditional vs. modern version Cause & Effect: Across the Stream - Ginsburg Comet’s Nine Lives - Brett Encounter – Yolen If Up Take a Mouse to the Movies - Numeroff If You Give a Moose a Muffin – Numeroff If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – Numeroff If You Give a Pig a Pancake – Numeroff

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Napping House – Wood River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz Sierra – Siebert That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Cuyler Where the Wild Things Are - Sendak Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears – Aardema 398.2 Why the Chicken Crossed the Road - Macaulay Point of View: Black and White - Macaulay Call Me Ahnighito – Conrad Great Kapok Tree – Cherry Great Shaking –Carson Pain and the Great One – Blume Something to Tell the Grandcows - Spinelli Through Grandpa’s Eyes – MacLachlan Tight Times – Hazen True Story of the Three Little Pigs - Scieszka/Smith Two Bad Ants – Van Allsburg Voices in the Park - Browne When I Was Young in the Mountains – Rylant Barn – Atwell Story Sequence: Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain - Aardema Jumanji - Van Allsburg King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub – Wood The Mitten – Brett 398.2 Where the Wild Things Are – Sendak Drawing conclusions/ Inferences: Wreck of the Zephyr - Van Allsburg Fact/Fiction: Like Jake and me – Jukes Perfect Puppy for Me – O’Connor & Hartland Popcorn Book - de Paola 641.6 Rattlesnake Dance: True Tales, Mysteries, and Rattlesnake Ceremonies – Dewey 597.96 Stellaluna – Cannon Verdi – Cannon GENRES: Autobiography: Don’t You Know there’s a War On? – Stevenson, James Through My Eyes – Bridges, Ruby

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Biography: Wilma Unlimited – Krull (Wilma Rudolph) 921 Rud American Boy, the Adventures of Mark Twain – Brown 921 Twa Fantasy: Rootabaga Stories – Sandburg 808.8 Historical fiction: Pink and Say – Polacco (Civil War) Train to Somewhere – Bunting (Orphan Train) (See Social Studies section for more.) Mystery: Grandpa’s Teeth – Clement Realistic fiction: Lady in the Box - McGovern Your Move – Bunting Science fiction: Mission Ziffoid – Rosen Nova’s Ark – Kirk Tales: (See final two pages of Language Arts ) PARTS OF SPEECH: Nouns: A Cache of Jewels – Heller 428.1 A Mink, a Fink, a Skating rink, What is a Noun? - Cleary, Brian 428.2 Pronouns: I and You and Don’t Forget Who – Cleary, Brian 428.2 Mine, All Mine – Heller 428.2s Verbs: Kites Sail High – Heller 428.2 Old Black Fly - Aylesworth Prairie Dogs Kiss and Lobsters Wave: How Animals Say Hello – Singer 591.59 Pumpkin Soup – Cooper To Root, to toot, to Parachute; What is a Verb? - Cleary, Brian 428.2 Zzzng! Zzzng! A Yoruba Tale – Gershator 398.24 Adjectives: Hairy, Scary, Ordinary; What is an Adjective? - Cleary, Brian 428.2 Old Black fly – Aylesworth Many Luscious Lollipops – Heller 428.2 That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Cuyler Things that are Most in the World – Barrett

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Adverbs: Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely What is an Adverb? –Cleary, Brian 428.2 Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish – Obligado Z Was Zapped - Van Allsburg 411 Prepositions: Behind the Mask – Heller 428.2 Under, Over, by the Clover; What is a Preposition? – Cleary, Brian 428.2 Superlatives: Things that are Most In the World –Barrett Interjections and Conjunctions: Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal! – Heller 425 Grammar: Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm – Nolen Old Jake’s Skirts – Slonim Alliteration, Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives: Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein 428.1 Compound Words: Once there was a Bull… (frog) – Walton WRITING SKILLS: Letter Writing: Armadillo from Amarillo – Cherry Around the World, Who’s been Here? – George Message in the Mailbox – Leedy 395 Stringbean’s Trip to the Shining Sea – Williams Acrostic Poems: Autumn, an Alphabet Acrostic – Schnur 793.73 Punctuation: Punctuation takes a Vacation - Pulver Vocabulary: Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster – Frasier Jokes & Riddles: Funny You Should Ask: How to Make Up Jokes and Riddles with Wordplay – Terban 808 ABC Books: A is for Salad – Lester

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Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein 428.1 Animalia – Base Antics – Hepworth 421 Many Nations, An Alphabet of Native Americans – Bruchac 970 Miss Spider’s ABC - Kirk Old Black Fly – Aylesworth Prairie Alphabet - Bannatyne-Cugnet 421 Prairie Primer A-Z – Stutson Tomorrow’s Alphabet – Shannon 411 Wacky Wedding – Edwards What Pete Ate A-Z - Kalman Memorable Language: Fireflies! – Brinckloe Home Place – Dragonwagon Jumanji – Van Allsburg Letting Swift River Go – Yolen Memory Box – Shanley Midnight in the Mountains – Lawson My Mama Had a Dancing Heart –Gray Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street – Schotter Owl Moon – Yolen The Relatives Came – Rylant Word Choice: Amos & Boris – Steig Chris Van Allsburg’s books Home Place – Dragonwagon Patricia Polacco’s books Character Traits: Amazing Grace – Hoffman Amos & Boris – Steig Chrysanthemum – Henkes Crow Boy – Yashima Miss Rumphius – Cooney My Great Aunt Arizona – Houston 921 Hug Song and Dance Man - Ackerman Literacy: Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair - Polacco Thank You, Mr. Falker - Polacco Fairy Tales: Chickerella - Auch Cindy Ellen, a Wild Western Cinderella - Lowell 398.2 Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea - Johnston Egyptian Cinderella – Climo 398.2

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Fanny’s Dream - Buehner Frog Prince Continued - Scieszka Gift of the Crocodile, A Cinderella Story - Sierra 398.2 Jim and the Beanstalk - Briggs 398.2 Kate and the Beanstalk – Osborne 398.2 Little Red Cowboy Hat - Lowell 398.2 Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters -Steptoe Paper Bag Princess - Munsch Petite Rouge, A Cajun Red Riding Hood – Artell 398.2 Princess Furball - Huck Squids Will Be Squids – Scieszka Stinky Cheese Man – Scieszka Three Cool Kids Emberley – 398.2 True Story of the Three Little Pigs –Scieszka Yours Truly, Goldilocks - Ada Fables: Blind Men and the Elephant – Backstein 398.21 Fables – Lobel, Arnold Tortoise and the Hare: an Aesop Fable – Stevens 398.2 Nursery Rhymes: And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon - Stevens Here Comes Mother Goose – Opie 398.8 Itsy Bitsy Spider - Trapani Cumulative Tales: Book that Jack Wrote - Scieszka Napping House - Wood (also in Big Book form) No More Jumping on the Bed - Arnoco Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Taback Old Woman and Her Pig - Kimmel Shoes From Grandpa - Fox Modern Tales: Gruffalo – Donaldson My Sister’s Rusty Bike – Aylesworth (tall tale) Wordless books: Free Fall - Wiesner Sector 7 – Wiesner Quotations: Quotations for Kids – Senn 082 A World of Words, An ABC of Quotations – Tobias & Malone 811

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MULTICULTURAL Egypt: The Day of Ahmed’s Secret - Heide Appalachia: Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds - Rylant My Great-Aunt Arizona - Houston Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree - Houston Black History: A Band of Angels - Hopkinson Duke Ellington - Pinkney The Story of Ruby Bridges - Coles The Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields – Miller Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker - Lasky Amish: An Amish Christmas - Ammon Just Plain Fancy - Polacco Raising Yoder’s Barn - Yolen Russian: The Keeping Quilt - Polacco Japanese: Baseball Saved Us – Mochizuki The Bracelet - Uchida Grandfather’s Journey - Say Irish: O’Sullivan Stew – Talbott Arab: The Storytellers – Lewin Mexican: Uncle Rain Cloud – Johnston African: Village of Round and Square Houses – Grifalconi Chinese: Coolies – Yin Argentina: Gauchada – Lamm

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PREJUDICE / TOLERANCE

Blind Men and the Elephant - Backstein Friday Night at Hodges’ Café - Eagam Widow’s Broom – Van Allsburg Black: Band of Angels: a Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers – Hopkinson Other Side - Woodson Teammates – Golenbock Through My Eyes – Bridges, Ruby Vision of Beauty: the Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker – Hannaway Jewish: Molly’s Pilgrim - Cohen Physically Handicapped: The Storm - Harshman (wheelchair) Mentally Handicapped: Be Good to Eddie Lee - Fleming (Down’s Syndrome) Japanese: The Bracelet – Uchida (WWII) internment camp) So Far from the Sea - Bunting (WWII internment camp) Homeless: Fly Away Home - Bunting Lady in the Box – McGovern Uncle Willy’s Soup Kitchen – DiSalvo-Ryan GETTING ALONG Bad Case of Stripes - Shannon (being yourself) Chrysanthemum - Henkes Gershon’s Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year – Kimmel Hey Little Ant – Hoose (respect; not looking down on others) Hooway for Wodney Wat – Lester (acceptance) Lizzie’s Invitation – Keller (being left out) Stephanie’s Pony Tail - Munsch Summer Wheels - Bunting When Sophie Gets Angry - Bang (controlling anger) Wings - Myers (being yourself, acceptance of others)

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GRANDPARENTS / ELDERLY Emma - Kesselman Aunt Flossie’s Hats – Howard Grandfather’s Journey -Say Grandpa’s Face –Cooper Grandpa’s Soup - Kadano Homeplace – Shelby Hundred Penny Box - Mathis I Go With My Family To Grandma’s - Levinson Knots on a Counting Rope - Martin Miss Rumphius- Cooney Not the Piano, Mrs. Medley! - Levine Old Henry - Blos Old Jake’s Skirts – Slonim Old Woman Who Named Things - Rylant Papa Lucky’s Shadow - Daly Song and Dance Man - Ackerman Sunday Outing - Pinkney Thunder Cake – Polacco Two of Them - Aliki Tom - de Paola Wednesday Surprise – Bunting When I Was Young in the Mountains - Rylant Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partiridge – Fox DEATH Everett Anderson’s Goodbye – Clifton Two of Them, The - Aliki ECOLOGY Great Kapok Tree – Cherry Great Trash Bash - Leedy Heron Street - Turner Just a Dream - Van Allsburg Legend of the Indian Paintbrush – dePaola Letting Swift River Go - Yolen Miss Rumphius – Cooney Owl Moon – Yolen River Ran Wild - Cherry Sierra - Siebert (effects of removal of a link in the food chain/web) Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe – Williams

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MUSIC Blues of Flats Brown – Myers Fiddlin’ Sam – Dengler Froggy Plays with the Band – London Flute Player: an Apache Folktale - Lacapa M is for Melody: a Music Alphabet – Wargin Remarkable Farkle McBride – Lithgow Wood-hoopoe Willie – Kroll ART Art Lesson – De Paola Katie Meets the Impressionists – Mayhew Linnea in Monet’s Garden – Bjork No Good in Art – Cohen

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CHARACTER EDUCATION BULLYING Picture Books: Just One Flick of a Finger - Lorbiecki (serious book about guns) Nobody Knew What to Do: A Story About Bullying - McCain Recess Queen – O’Neill Say Something - Moss Read-Aloud Chapter Books: 18th Emergency - Byars Bad Girls - Wilson Berenstain Bears and the Bully - Berenstain Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain- Romain 302.3 Bully of Barkham Street- Stolz How to Be Cool in the Third Grade - Duffey Jake Drake, Bully Buster- Clements Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge -Shreve Surviving Brick Johnson - Myers Veronica Ganz - Sachs Professional Books: Bully Free Classroom: Over 100 Tips and Strategies for Teachers K-8 –Beane 371.102 Bully Proofing Your School – Garrity, et al. 372.17 Bul How to Handle Bullies, Teasers and Other Meanies – Cohen-Posey 303.6 The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander – Coloroso 371.7 SELF-WORTH Picture Books: Bad Case of Stripes - Shannon Children’s Book of Virtues –Bennett 808.8 Chi Chrysanthemum - Henkes Gumbo goes Downtown - Talley I’m Gonna Like Me- Curtis Just Like Mike - Herman Odd Velvet- Whitcomb Otis – Bynum Ruby the Copycat - Rathmann Thank You, Mr. Falker - Polacco Your Move - Bunting (pressure to be in a gang) (Self-Worth) Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Bad Girls - Wilson Freckle Juice - Blume Girl With 500 Middle Names - Haddix

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The Girls - Koss Lizzie at Last - Mills Star Girl - Spinelli There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom - Sachar Winners Take All - Bowen Zach’s Lie – Smith RESPONSIBILITY Picture Books: Amos and Boris - Steig Apple Picking Time - Slawson Berenstain Bears and the Blame Game - Berenstain Brave Irene - Steig Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi Farmer Duck - Waddell Full Belly Bowl - Aylesworth Hana’s Year - Talley I Did It, I’m Sorry - Buehner It’s Up to You Griffin - Pickford Sachiki Means Happiness - Sakal Song and Dance Man - Ackerman Swimmy - Lionni Tops and Bottoms - Stevens Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge - Fox Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Dog on Barkham Street - Stolz Family Under the Bridge - Carlson Light at Tern Rock - Sauer Marvin Redpost, Alone in His Teacher’s House - Sachar Night Swimmers - Byars On My Honor - Bauer One-Eyed Cat - Fox Sign of the Beaver -Speare Stone Fox - Gardiner Summer Wheels - Bunting RESPECT Picture Books: Amos & Boris - Steig Arthur’s Eyes - Brown Arthur’s Nose - Brown Chicken Sunday - Polocca Crow Boy - Yashima Frog and Toad Together - Lobel Great Kapok Tree - Cherry Hey Little Ant - Hoose Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse - Henkes

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No Good in Art - Cohen Quarreling Book - Zolotow Richard Wright and the Library Card - Miller Ruby the Copycat - Rathmann Sachiko Means Happiness - Sakai Smoky Night - Bunting Stellaluna - Cannon Strega Nona - De Paola Two of Them - Aliki Ugly Duckling - Anderson Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Bully of Barkham Street - Stolz Hundred Penny Box - Mathis Nothing’s Fair in the Fifth Grade - DeClements Zucchini - Dana COURAGE Picture Books: Amber was Brave, Essie was Smart - Williams Brand New Kid - Couric (courage to accept someone different) Brave as a Mountain Lion – Scott Brave Irene - Steig Cello of Mr. O - Cutler Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi Courage - Waber Little Polar Bear and the Brave Little Hare - DeBeer Thunder Cake - Polacco Very First Last Time - Andrews Courage Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Call It Courage - Sperry Courage of Sarah Noble - Dalgliesh Drinking Gourd - Monjo Hatchet - Paulsen Helen Keller - Keller 921 Kel Sarah, Plain and Tall - MacLachlan Sign of the Beaver - Speare Snow Treasure - McSwigan Whipping Boy - Fleischman CARING/COMPASSION Picture Books: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Viorst Big Al - Clements Chair for My Mother - Williams

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Children’s Book of Virtues – Bennett 808.8 Chi Crow Boy - Yashima How Many Days to America?- Bunting Mean Soup - Everitt Owl Moon - Yolen Rainbow Fish - Pfister Sachiko Means Happiness - Sakai Smoky Night - Bunting Three Questions - Muth Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen - DiSalvo-Ryan Under the Lemon Moon - Fine Wednesday Surprise - Bunting Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Robinson Hundred Dresses - Estes Molly’s Pilgrim - Cohen Pinballs - Byars (Lit Set) Randall’s Wall - Fenner Secret Life of the Underwear Champ - Miles HONESTY Picture Books: Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi Day’s Work - Bunting Empty Pot - Demi 398.2 Gold Coin - Ada Honest to Goodness Truth - McKissack I Did It, I Am Sorry - Buehner Plato’s Journey - Talley Sam, Bangs and Moonshine - Ness Smoky Night - Bunting The Summer My Father Was Ten - Brisson Too Many Tamales - Soto Read-Aloud Chapter Books: The Cheat - Koss Death at Devil’s Bridge - DeFelice Nothing But the Truth - Avi On My Honor - Bauer COOPERATION Picture Books: Berlioz the Bear- Fic Brett Farmer Duck - Waddell Story of Jumping Mouse - Steptoe 398.2

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Swimmy – Lionni Uncle Jed’s Barbershop - Mitchell Wild Christmas Reindeer - Brett PERSEVERANCE Picture Books: Alexander and the Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Viorst Amazing Grace - Hoffman Apple Picking Time - Slawson Brave Irene - Steig Chair for My Mother - Williams Empty Pot - Demi 398.2 Galimoto - Williams How Many Days to America - Bunting Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin (Perseverance - continued on next page) Ox-Cart Man - Hall Pumpkin Runner – Arnold Rocks in His Head - Hurst Story of Jumping Mouse - Steptoe 398.2 Swimmy - Lionni Tortoise and the Hare - Stevens Uncle Jed’s Barbershop - Mitchell Wagon Wheels - Brenner Wednesday Surprise - Bunting Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph became the World’s Fastest Woman – Krull 921 Perseverance Read-aloud Chapter Books: Jason’s Gold - Hobbs Helen Keller – Keller 921 Hatchet - Paulsen There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom - Sachar INTEGRITY Picture Books: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible…- Viorst Children’s Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi Ruby the Copycat - Rathmann Read-aloud Chapter Books: Death at Devil’s Bridge - DeFelice ANGER Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move - Viorst Amazing Millika - Parkison

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Andrew’s Angry Words - Lachner I’m Furious - Crary Quarreling Book - Zolotow Smoky Night - Bunting Uncle Rain Cloud - Johnston When Sophie Gets Angry - Bang

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Picture Book Biographies Snowflake Bentley – Martin Revolutionary John Adams – Harness Fossil Girl, Mary Anning’s Dinosaur Discovery – Brighton Daring Nellie Bly, America’s Star Reporter – Christensen Story of Ruby Bridges – Coles Seeker of Knowledge, the Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs – Rumford Librarian who Measured the Earth – Hawkes Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin – Giblin Galileo – Fisher Lou Gehrig, the Luckiest Man – Adler Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins – Kerley Uncommon Traveler, Mary Kingsley in Africa – Brown Hero and the Holocaust, the story of Janusz Korczak and His Children – Adler Ruth Law Thrills a Nation – Brown Leonardo Da Vinci – Stanley Lindbergh – Demarest Michelangelo – Stanley When Esther Morris Headed West – Wooldridge Shooting for the Moon, the Amazing Life and Times of Annie Oakley – Krensky Bill Pickett, Rodeo-Ridin’ Cowboy – Pinkney They Called Her Molly Pitcher – Rockwell Promises to Keep, How Jackie Robinson Changed America – Robinson, Sharon Norman Rockwell, Storyteller with a Brush – Gherman Voice from the Wilderness, Story of Anna Howard Shaw – Brown Vision of Beauty, the Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker – Lasky Duke Ellington – Pinkney Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields – Miller

Cinderella Variations Bubba, the Cowboy Prince – Ketteman Chickerella - Auch Cindy Ellen, a Wild Western Cinderella – Lowell Dinorella – Edwards Egyptian Cinderella – Climo Fanny’s Dream – Buehner Gift of the Crocodile, a Cinderella Story – Sierra Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – Steptoe Princess Furball – Huck Rough-face Girl – Martin

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